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Green YouthInformal youth groups can apply for up to €1,000 from Generation Climate Europe's Youth Climate Changemakers Fund, with the next deadline on 25 October 2026.
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Green YouthThree young environmental leaders from Uganda, Barbados and the Philippines have won the Irene Dankelman Young Ecofeminist Award 2026, honoured at a ceremony held during the United Nations biodiversity conference, CBD COP17, in Yerevan, Armenia, on Wednesday, 21 October 2026. The Irene Dankelman Young Ecofeminist Award celebrates young women and gender-diverse changemakers whose community-led work
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Green Youth25 youth-led groups share $25 million for local climate solutions Twenty-five youth-led organisations working in 33 countries have each won a flexible, multi-year gift of $1 million under the Youth Climate Champions Award, the organisers announced on 21 October 2026 in Chicago. The Youth Climate Champions Award is a $25 million global open call funded
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Green YouthApplications have opened for the African Climate Alliance (ACA) Ambassador Programme 2027, a nine-month hybrid programme that trains emerging climate justice activists to lead local climate action in their communities. Applications opened on 9 October 2026 and close on 1 November 2026 at 23:59 Central Africa Time (CAT). The programme combines climate justice education, peer
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Green YouthYerevan — As world leaders gather in Yerevan for the UN biodiversity summit COP17, new global research on 12,716 young people finds that youth demand biodiversity action louder than ever: more than six in ten 13- to 29-year-olds say they are more worried about biodiversity loss than they were three years ago, and half of
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Green YouthVezirköprü, Türkiye — Climate worry runs high among rural Turkish teenagers, and it is closely tied to their mental health: nearly half of the 782 high school students surveyed in a new peer-reviewed study scored at or above the clinical cut-off for generalized anxiety. The study, published on 16 October 2026 in the journal BMC
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Green YouthFREETOWN: Young delegates from across Sierra Leone formally adopted the Sierra Leone youth climate statement on 8 October 2026, closing two days of youth-led debate at the Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) in the capital and sending a unified set of recommendations on climate action, green finance and inclusive policymaking to the country's decision-makers. The
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Green YouthPlan International's Global Youth Ambassadors, aged 16-24, have issued a COP31 Youth Declaration ahead of the Antalya talks, with three priorities: adaptation, climate education and a just transition.
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Green YouthMore than 280 young students from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the EU have turned the pressure of looming climate negotiations into working solutions, building 47 prototypes in 60 hours in the European Union's first regional youth climate hackathon — timed to feed fresh youth-led ideas into COP31. Called Climate Hack-tion, the fully online
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Green YouthHONOLULU, Hawaii — Young people across Hawaii are being invited to take over the State Capitol and turn their climate ideas into law. The Hawaiʻi Youth Climate Summit will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2026, bringing children, teens and young adults face to face with policymakers to pitch solutions for a healthier, safer and
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Green YouthHeld in Bangladesh for the first time, RCOY Asia-Pacific 2026 brought 500+ youth from 28 countries to Dhaka to draft a Regional Youth Statement for COY21 and COP31.
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Green YouthEuropean Commissioner for Climate, Net-Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra has pledged to support greater youth involvement in climate policymaking after meeting 16 young people from across Europe ahead of the COP31 UN climate conference, according to reports from the meeting. The Youth Policy Dialogue on COP31 took place on 1 October 2026 in Brussels,
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India has proposed allowing chemically recycled plastic in food packaging, as the EU prepares to ban plastic-waste exports to non-OECD countries from 21 November.
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Green JournalismAmphora Media's cross-border investigation "Profit in Every Drop" has won Environment and Planning Journalism at the Malta Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismBroadcast journalists from Namibia, Zambia and Senegal have begun a two-day climate reporting programme under the AUB–Green Climate Fund Climate Impact Stories Partnership, aiming for accurate, human-centred, solutions-focused coverage.
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Green JournalismEntries have opened for the 2026 Climate Media Awards, celebrating African reporting on how communities grow, share and source food in a changing climate.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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